سورة یسٓ
Surah Yâ Sîn 36:6
O Perfect Man! · Verse 6 of 83
لِتُنْذِرَ قَوْمًا مَا أُنْذِرَ آبَاؤُهُمْ فَهُمْ غَافِلُونَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
So that you may warn the people who are ignorant because their forefathers have not been warned (for a long time).
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
In order that thou mayest admonish a people, whose fathers had received no admonition, and who therefore remain heedless (of the Signs of Allah).
Ahmed Ali
That you may warn a people whose ancestors had never been warned, who are therefore heedless.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
So that you may warn a people whose (near) forefathers were not warned, and who are therefore heedless (of the truth and falsehood).
Daryabadi
That thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were not warned; so they are negligent.
Faridul Haque
So that you may warn these people whose ancestors were not warned, they are therefore unaware.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
That thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless.
Maulvi Sher Ali
That thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were not warned, and so they are heedless.
Muhammad Asad
[bestowed upon thee] so that thou mayest warn people whose forefathers had not been warned, and who therefore are unaware [of the meaning of right and wrong].
Muhammad Musin Khan
In order that you may warn a people whose forefathers were not warned, so they are heedless.
Muhammad Pickthall
That thou mayst warn a folk whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless.
Muhammad Sarwar
so that you may warn a people who are unaware because their fathers were not warned.
Muhammed ali Shakir
That you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless.
Rashad Khalifa
To warn people whose parents were never warned, and therefore, they are unaware.
Shabbir Ahmed
That you may warn a people whose ancestors were not warned, and are, therefore, unaware of what is right and what is wrong.
Commentary 36:6 This phrase “because their forefathers have not been warned” does not mean that their ancestors had not been sent Prophets as warners. It means that their…
لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًا مَّا أُنذِرَ آبَاؤُهُمْ فَهُمْ غَافِلُونَ
36:6 This phrase “because their forefathers have not been warned” does not mean that their ancestors had not been sent Prophets as warners. It means that their ancestors did not believe in the warning given to them. After all, Jews and the Christians reached the Arabian Peninsula and through them, the Arabs of the desert, in a way, received religions warning. The Arabs at large were heedless to this warning. The duty of religious reformation was thus entrusted to this Prophet of Islam.